Famous quotes containing the words victor hugo, victor, hugo and/or paris:
“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)